[Hilary]

Thank you.

I'm sure you're right.

**EDIT**

Er, let me just delete everything I wrote before I found the stray ' in the code . I still haven't got it working, but I'll post a better update after I've tested a few more things.

--------------- Added [DATE]1461490554[/DATE] at [TIME]1461490554[/TIME] ---------------

Sorry to say that this -

$templater = vB_Template::create('ubermenu');
        $templater->register('notifications_menubits', $notifications_menubits);
        $templater->register('notifications_total', $notifications_total);
$ubermenu = $templater->render();
vB_Template::preRegister('header', array('ubermenu' => $ubermenu));

- definitely doesn’t work.

I replaced my whole ubermenu template with the original notifications code, and finally with

<div><vb:if condition="$notifications_total">There are notifications<vb:else />Yes, we have no notifications</vb:if>
<ul>{vb:raw notifications_menubits}</ul></div>

It always displays the 'no notifications' option (and I'm logged in, and have loads of notifications, which show up fine in the default skin), and doesn't display the notifications_menubits at all. IOW, the presence or absence of those two 'register' lines in the plugin makes no difference to the result.